The 1985 American League Championship Series was a semifinal matchup in Major League Baseball's 1985 postseason played between the Kansas City Royals and the Toronto Blue Jays from October 8 to 16. Ma
Bobby Cox (pictured in 2009) managed the Blue Jays until the end of the 1985 ALCS. He then left to serve as general manager of the Atlanta Braves and eventually brought himself to serve as manager in 1990; two years later, his Braves met the Blue Jays in the World Series.
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The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the American League Central Division.
1985 American League Championship Series
…would come in 1989, their first season in the then-new SkyDome. It was the first and only Game 7 played by the Blue Jays until 2025. 1985 ALCS (4–3): Kansas City Royals over Toronto Blue Jays The seventh game of the series was the end of the line for Blue Jays' manager Bobby Cox. Six days after the game ended, he left…
The Royals wore their trademark powder blue road uniforms from 1973 to 1991 and reintroduced it in 2008 as an alternate jersey.
A game versus the Chicago White Sox at Kauffman Stadium (then Royals Stadium), September 1976
George Brett bats during a 1990 game at Kauffman Stadium (then Royals Stadium).
Kauffman Stadium underwent renovations in 2009, including the addition of a high-definition scoreboard.